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World's Fair Women and Wives of Prominent Officials Connected With .Urt5 WOBEN. ! LIBRARY OF^CONGRESS. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A SOUVENIR OF "^orlb's o fair © ^omeri AXD WIVES OF PROMINENT OFFICIALS CONXECTED WITH THE Wopid s Oolumblan Qxposition. CHICAGO THE BI^OCHKR COMPANY 1892 Copyright T8q2 BY Josephine D. Hilu PREFACE. .V N attempting to select the most prominent, or most beautiful Jl women connected with the World's Columbian Exposition, the same difficult}' would be encountered, as would be, should one enter Superintendent Thorp's flower-garden on the Exposi- tion grounds and strive to select a bouquet of only the most attrac- tive and beautiful flowers. The author discovered at the outset that the task of chosing from the galax}' of charming and bril- liant women who compose the Board of Lady INIanagers of the World's Columbian Commission, or selecting the loveliest from those who rule the hearthstones of the prominent officials, would be most difficult and delicate. It it needless to say the thought was abandoned, and in the garden where this little bouquet was gathered, we have left lilies just as fair, and roses just as magni- ficent, violets just as sweet, and forget-me-nots just as lovable. We trust that a charitable public will understand and appre- ciate the intent to only have a dainty little souvenir book worthy of the occasion. • r. D. H. PART I. Mrs. Bertha M. Honore Paemer. Mrs. Susan Gaee Cooke. Mrs. Raeph Trautmanx. INlRS. Charees Price. Mrs. Susax R. Asheey. INIrs. Nancy Huston Banks. Mrs. Heeen Morton Barker. Mrs. Marcia Louise Gould. Mrs. Gen. John A. Logan. Mrs. M. R. M. Wallace. Mrs. Frances B. Clarke. Mrs. Gen. A. L. Chetlain. Mrs. Charles Henrotin. Mrs. William H. Felton. Miss Mary Elliott M'Candless. Mrs. Annie L. Y. Orff. Mrs. Elizabeth C. Langworthy. Mrs. W. Newton Linch. Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker. /727^^^^ MRS. BERTHA M. HONORE PALMER. President of the Board of Lady Managers of the World's Columbian Exposition. During the first session of the Board of Lady Managers of the AVorld's Columbian Commission on November 29, 1890, Mrs. Potter Palmer was unanimously elected to the Presidency of that great body of representative American women. Mrs. Palmer was born in Louisville, Kentucky, her father being of French descent and her mother belonging to one of the most aristocratic South- ern families. She was educated at a convent in Georgetown, Maryland, and soon after, Miss Bertha Honore, beautiful and accomplished, entered society, where her mental acquirements and inherent grace and refinement of manner soon won for her an enviable position. In 1871 she married Mr. Potter Palmer, a wealthy and influential citizen of Chicago, and has since resided in the Garden City. The Palmer mansion (called the castle) on the Lake Shore drive, being one of the finest in the country. Mrs. Palmer, in accepting the high and honorable position tendered her, fully realized the almost herculean task before her. How she calmly accepted the post of honor, second to none ever before held by a woman the world does not need to be told; how she set about the difficult work of reconciling clashing elements, bringing order out of chaos, a doubly-complex task because she had no precedent to follow, no fixed rule to govern her; how she carved a pathway and paved it with golden possibilities, beck- oning to her side representative women of all the first nations of the globe, will comprise a brilliant page in National history, that w^ill live long after this century. Her addresses before the solons of both our National and State legislatures stamped her at once as a woman of brilliant and unusual oratorical gifts. While the honored guest of European dignitaries, Mrs. President Palmer still sustained all the splendid traits inseparable from her patriotic republican principles, while obtaining from them promises to make a grand and thorough exhibition of foreign women's work at the World's Fair. Mrs. Palmer is of medium height, petite and symetrically formed, with a mobile Guido-like face, framed in soft dark hair tinged with gray. Shining eyes and dewy lips, with a gracious manner only possible to a cultured nature with a warm heart, hut faintly describes the impression Mrs. Palmer makes upon the stranger. It is this graciousness, combined with a natural adaptabilit\' to all conditions and people, that has won for Mrs. Palmer the high regard and unstinted admiration of the many. 'ZcUpti^ T^m-erfBc^ MRS. susan;galk cookk. Secretary of the Board of Lady Managers. A woman of gentle birth and high breeding, possessing such admirable traits, as a thorough and finished education ripened by practical experience, a perfect aptitude and capacity for the work she has undertaken and a native affability and personal mag- netism that has won for her hosts of friends, Mrs. Susan Gale Cooke, Secretary of the Board of Lady Managers will ever be re- garded as the most fitting person for a position so conspicuous and important. Mrs. Cooke is a native of New York, where the first years of her married life were passed. Her father. Dr. George Gale, was a ph^^sician and surgeon of the State of Vermont. The family removed to Knoxville, Tenn., several years before Mr. Cooke's early death, and Mrs. Cooke has subsequently made that beautiful and picturesque little city her home; is thoroughly identified with the section, and prominent in literary and social circles. Being appointed to represent Tennessee upon the Board of Lady Managers, Mrs. Cooke came to Chicago as a representative South- ern woman, remaining as the chosen Secretary of the Board, and in the creditable pride felt in her distinguished success, Tennes- see considered Mrs. Cooke her own, and not merely an adopted daughter. The Board of Lady Managers w^ere fortunate in select- ing so competent a Secretary. y^^ ^ ' "'yvc^^y^ ^^ yy>^^<^^/^.^ MRS. RALPH TRAUTMANN. First Vice-President of the Board of Lady Managers. Mrs. Trauttnann was unanimously elected First Vice-President of the Board of Lady Managers because of her high social posi- tion, her brilliant qualities cf mind and heart, her broad and com- prehensive view of all matters of public interest. From the first conception of a Woman's Department for the Columbian Expo- sition, Mrs. Trautmann has been one of its most active promo- tors. At the first session of the Board of Lady Managers, her bright suggestions and timely resolutions were of inestimable value. Although not a member of the State Board, she has attended all their meetings in New York and Albany—taking an active interest in all that concerns the advancement of the World's Fair. Evincing great zeal in the higher education of women she has identified herself with many educational interests. She was one of the founders of the Ladies' Health Protective Association and through her persistent effort and influence, has accomplished a wonderful work in that direction, as it was the first organiza- tion of this kind in New York, and met with strong opposition from the authorities. She has also w^orked early and late for the interest of the "Hahnemann Hospital." No achievement seemed too difi&cult for this exceedingly busy woman—if good could thereby be accomplished. Mrs. Trautmann is one of the bright galaxy of women comprising the "Sorosis," and belongs to other well known women's organizations. The women wage workers of New York are especially indebt- ed to this noblewoman who by persistent effort and influence has improved their condition, and interested many of them in work for the Fair. Although not in the accepted sense a society woman, she possesses high social qualities and finds her happiest moments when dispensing generous hospitalities to scores of friends. Mrs. Trautmann 's brilliant intellectual attainments, coupled with a gracious aud dignified personality, render her singularly fitted for the high position she occupies as Vice President of the Board of Lady Managers. MRS. MARY R. PRICE. Third Vice-President of the Board of Ladv :\[anagers. Mrs. Mary R. Price, of Salisbury, X. C, is the daughter of the late distinguished Rev. A. J. Roberts, of Mobile, Alabama, Born in the far South, she has the marked characteristics of the typi- cal "Southern woman": pleasure loving, ardent temperament, progressive in action, kind, charitable and generous, with a hand and heart ever ready to help a friend or forgive an enemy. Early in life she married the Hon. Charles Price, a widely known and able politician, and one of North Carolina's most eminent lawyers. The "Old North State," proud of her patriotic fealty to the home of her adoption, selected Mis. Price its Lady Manager of the World's Columbian Exposition, placing with confidence in her hand the banner of its interests. She has been very much interested in the collection of ex- hibits from all parts of Ncrth Carolina, where extraordinary diffi- culties are to be surmounted owing to the peculiar disposition of its 1,600,000 population. There are no large cities, and hence a great diffusion in its settlement. It is frequently necessary for her to take drives over the country- of twenty or thirty miles to expedite her work. Of her many master strokes, her "Colum- bian Evening'' is pronounced her crowning success. She has interested the school children and taught them in her entertain- ing lectures, "What women are to do; what North Carolina must do at Chicago." Mrs. Price in her social life is affable and attractive and has many admirers. She is gentle but ambitious, courts society, and is a mistress of the arts of diplomacy. She talks well and knows also how to listen.
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